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Description

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chorata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Infraorder: Pecora

Family: Unuscornidea

Genus: Unuscornus

Species: U. eburneus palustris -Marsh unicorn

Conservation status: Endangered

Marsh unicorns are a subspecies of the English unicorn. As its name suggests it inhabits mostly marshlands and feeds on aquatic and semi-aquatic plant life. Like its close cousin, these animals are solitary, having wide territories which only interact with their own kind during the rut. Marsh unicorns are crepuscular, wading into the water to feed in the evening. Oddly enough these animals a surprisingly aggressive compared to the English unicorn. There have been several accounts of humans injured by the marsh unicorn because they mistaken them for its far more docile cousin. In ancient times this reputation and its tendency to be active in dark marshes led to many legends of this creature having supernatural abilities.
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A piece which is from a project that a friend and I have been working on sporadically for sometime now. I had finished many of these sometime ago but at first did not wish to share them, however I have changed my mind hoping to get some artistic and scientific critiques on this work. I will leave a small amount of information on the creatures that I have written, it will not be all of the information of the final draft so that there is some surprise in the finished product. I ask for as much critique as I can get on both the drawings and the information I have given on these creatures.

This project is meant to experiment with the idea of what if the creatures of the our mythologies could actually exist and how could their unique physiology come to be? Where would they fit in the family tree of earth's life and what caused them to evolve as such? I'll let you all have the fun of trying to figure out what these creatures mythological inspirations are, some will be much easier than others.

Description

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chorata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Infraorder: Pecora

Family: Unuscornidea

Genus: Unuscornus

Species: U. eburneus palustris -Marsh unicorn

Conservation status: Endangered

Marsh unicorns are a subspecies of the English unicorn. As its name suggests it inhabits mostly marshlands and feeds on aquatic and semi-aquatic plant life. Like its close cousin, these animals are solitary, having wide territories which only interact with their own kind during the rut. Marsh unicorns are crepuscular, wading into the water to feed in the evening. Oddly enough these animals a surprisingly aggressive compared to the English unicorn. There have been several accounts of humans injured by the marsh unicorn because they mistaken them for its far more docile cousin. In ancient times this reputation and its tendency to be active in dark marshes led to many legends of this creature having supernatural abilities.
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A piece which is from a project that a friend and I have been working on sporadically for sometime now. I had finished many of these sometime ago but at first did not wish to share them, however I have changed my mind hoping to get some artistic and scientific critiques on this work. I will leave a small amount of information on the creatures that I have written, it will not be all of the information of the final draft so that there is some surprise in the finished product. I ask for as much critique as I can get on both the drawings and the information I have given on these creatures.

This project is meant to experiment with the idea of what if the creatures of the our mythologies could actually exist and how could their unique physiology come to be? Where would they fit in the family tree of earth's life and what caused them to evolve as such? I'll let you all have the fun of trying to figure out what these creatures mythological inspirations are, some will be much easier than others.